Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.